'Duck Dynasty' star preached against gays in 2010

A 2010 video of “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson preaching against homosexuality emerged and was making the rounds on the Internet on Friday, according to TheWrap.

In the sermon, Robertson grouped gays with people full of “murder, envy, strife, hatred.”

This comes two days after A&E suspended Robertson from cable's top-rated reality show for making anti-gay remarks in an interview with GQ.

The 2010 video emerges just as A&E is trying to find a way to keep the show going. On Thursday, Robertson's family said they “cannot imagine” continuing the show without their patriarch.

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According to The Wrap, a rising tide of social conservatives are criticizing the network, saying it's infringing on Robertson's free-speech and religious rights. On the other side, people are outraged at his remarks, saying religion is no excuse for bigotry.

In his 2010 speech, Robertson said, “First they say, 'There is no God. Get him out of your mind. Then they bow down to birds, animals and reptiles, and each other. And the first thing you see coming out of them is gross sexual immorality. They will dishonor their bodies with one another, degrade each other. Uh, is that going on in the United States of America? Look around. God's not there ... And boy is there some immorality going on around here. Does it get worse?”

Wait ... he doesn't like animal lovers?

That's kind of weird for a guy who has made a lot of money from something called “Duck Dynasty.”

Robertson didn't explain who “they” are. In his GQ interview, he similarly grouped gays with “terrorists” and “drunks” as sinners.

“Women with women, men with men, they committed indecent acts with one another, and they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversions,” he continued in the 2010 speech. “They're full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil. That's what you have 235 years, roughly, after your forefathers founded the country. So what are you gonna do Pennsylvania? Just run with them? You're going to die. Don't forget that.”

According to TheWrap, the video drew attention in August for Robertson's condemnation of abortion, while the gay remarks were largely overlooked. Apparently someone went back and had another look.

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